iOS 7 eye strain

Well not put OS7 on my IPAD it is terrible

Even bolding, increasing font size, and fixing contrast does nothing for increasing the readability of the font like on the keyboard or the calendar date. What were the ios 7 designers thinking other than trying to make things look "cool"? Any programming or web design courses I have ever taken stressed usability. Readability and reducing eye strain should come first before any "coolness" factor, it isn't that difficult of a concept in software design. Not all users have young eyes, and even those that do should be protecting their eyes, not straining them on an ipad or an iphone. I can ignore the very plain and rather annoying zooming icons with their awful color choices and all the white everywhere, but give us some fatter fonts like in ios 6, please. And light gray is NOT an easy color to read, either! Hope an update comes soon, else I am selling my ipad 4.

Inanna17, totally agree it is an absolutely appalling upgrade- visually very hard on the eyes, looks tacky and unfinished. And why did they have to change Apple icons- the old ones were iconic and easily recognisable- now I have to look for the one I want very closley instead of just instinctively recongnisisng it without any effort.

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glendafromport leyden wrote:

sarcastic14u wrote:

The new iOS 7 is causing me eye strain. The font hurts my eyes. I can live with the "juvenille" icons but the sharp lines,and contrast or lack of is killing my eyes! Besides "brightness" and font size is there anything I can do to to help with this terrible download? Apple, big mistake here! Please help.....

Same here for me. 😢 A different background color would help big time! Apple needs to hear this from all of us!

My eyes hurt too and they are starting to tear a lot. I was so happy that we will get better futures but didn't expect this crazy small and thin letters and white backgrounds. Is crazy not to give choices to millions of customers to decide if they wanted iOS 7 or 6. I will sale my iphone 5 and will never buy apple again, unless they give us a solution.

Agreed! I had to turn off that stupid movement. I used to brag about my iPad now I never bring it with me becuase half the time the apps don't work anymore. Way to go apple. You are making me wanna give windows 8 a chance lol

7.0 is very very hard on the eyes and I dont have bad eyes but it makes it very hard to read like people said I can live with the 70's style icons but the headaches gotta go. You'd think they would do a survey to get reactions before they commit.

I agree the icons and the color schemes are an epic fail. The features are good, but it looks like a preschool toy now. I want a classic view option!

I'm hoping they will do some changes. Some features are good but the white backgrounds, thin and small, almost faded letters and the crazy twister like move has to go. They can come with something better! My eyes are watery all the time I use my iPhone. I didn't download the iOS 7 in my iPAD... I'm not crazy yet. I had laser surgery long time ago and even if I turn down the brightness all the way down it still too much for me. I never had problems like this before until I changed to the iOS 7. I hope they do some changes to better suit everybody...

I fully agree! It is a **** nuisance! This is called "technological convergence". Have you tried Windows? Obviously, they are using Windows over at Apple to develop their software. Maybe Microsoft is the true source of iOS7.

Eye strain is not the only problem. Some morons took away the feature that allowed the user to limit the number of e-mails to be downloaded. Why take something that is useful, convenient, and practical and remove it? Instead of doing something right, Apple is spending all of its resources fighting patents. It is about time they got their priorities right again. OK, too much to hope for...

You can make the text bold and it will help a bit. However, the white on gray is the killer. Even the notepad went white. Too much gray and white is not clean or cool it just hurts.

Peace,

Greg

Thanks, Greg

I did that. It helps a bit, but the fact remains that iOS7 is ergonomically speaking a BAD design. It should be easy on your eyes straight out of the box.

Cheers

I agree. The white on white or grey is an eyes strain. Please give us a way to return to the friendly warm intuitive easy to use interface. The flat interface not only depressing but far more difficult to see and work with.

On a related matter, wHy did Apple mess with near perfection? Instead of giving us users a reason to stay loyal to Apple I think Apple gave us many reasons to seek alternatives!

iOS 7 is Apple's "New Coke."

They stripped everything that made the iOS stand out and distinguished it from the competition--the photorealistic textures, buttons and switches that actually looked like buttons and switches and were thus intuitive, icons that, well, made sense--and replaced them with icons that are in many cases ambiguous at best (a gas hob for settings? Really?), a 'flatness' that is unintuitive (is this a button or just a word?), toggles that are camoflaged and nearly impossible to see (can we pick a poorer color combination than dark white on light white?), banner color combinations that are illegible (white text on astro-bright green?)--the color combinations that seem designed specifically to reduce legibility in general all while increasing eyestrain--that white background MUST have a dark alternative.

They took a phone OS that was a joy to use and, literally in the case of my tired eyes, made it a pain.

Children seem to like it, though.

If the shortcomings introduced by iOS 7 interface are not addressed and addressed quickly, I will be selling my iPhone despite my app investment and returning to Android, or maybe Microsoft. My iPhone no longer looks like an Apple product anyways, it looks like a poor copy of a Samsung skin with some Microsoft features thrown in to boot--when did Apple stop being a leader and innovator and start being a follower?